Artist:
Edward Gorey
(American, 1925 - 2000)
A Limerick (Little Zooks, of whom no one was fond,)
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Date: 1973
Dimensions:
4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (11.4 × 8.9 cm)
Accession number: 2009.9.1
Copyright: © The Edward Gory Charitable Trust
Label Copy:
Edward Gorey created humorous, curious stories in a series of pictures akin to cartoon strips but in picture-book form. These images provide story-like situations about the mundane and familiar, the obtuse and ambiguous, the coincidental and the fateful with a deliberately detached air. Except for a few books he created without text, most of the artist’s work revels in the combination of visual and word imagery and alliteration.
Edward Gorey created humorous, curious stories in a series of pictures akin to cartoon strips but in picture-book form. These images provide story-like situations about the mundane and familiar, the obtuse and ambiguous, the coincidental and the fateful with a deliberately detached air. Except for a few books he created without text, most of the artist’s work revels in the combination of visual and word imagery and alliteration.